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‘I could not understand what they were saying because it was all in Gaelic.’

‘However, unlike English and Gaelic, Scots words are frequently spelt in a variety of ways, leading to problems in drawing up a recognised system.’

‘The website has more information on it in English than in Gaelic, for example.’

‘Either of these would be a good exchange for any book tokens you may have lying around, and the latter has a very useful checklist of Scotland's native flora, with names listed in Latin, English, Gaelic and Scots.’

‘Many Gaelic speakers died in the Great Famine of the 1840s, and Gaelic was replaced by English, which was needed to achieve social mobility.’

‘They have what we can call ‘communicative competence’ even though their grammatical competence in Gaelic is weak.’

‘We then transcribed the recording in English and Gaelic.’

‘For every student sitting key exams who was fluent in the language in 1999, there are now two speakers of Gaelic.’

‘She was doing her best at translating the Gaelic in the letter the Cardinal had given her, and although she could tell most of the words, the sentences were nothing but nonsense.’

‘As the hours slowly passed, he rocked back and forth, muttering prayers first in Latin, then in Gaelic, then in English.’

‘The actors, including the children, had to be Gaelic speakers - each scene was filmed twice: in both English and Gaelic.’

‘For many performers it was a statement of identity, allied to a desire for constitutional change and the need to maintain languages such as Welsh, Gaelic, Breton and Erse, threatened with extinction.’